Our libraries make it a practice to display Local Artist’s art inside various branches of our library system. This practice has been well received by our dwindling reading public. The artists themselves really appreciate this exposure because they are all starving.
One of our artists had eight paintings of his hanging in a library branch. His display was scheduled to be up for another month but, because of the complaint of ONE SINGLE patron, he has had to remove his artwork.
The issue that offended the ONE SINGLE patron was that the eight paintings were of well-know local Evangelical Preachers. The ONE SINGLE patron complained that the subjects of the paintings were only Christian Preachers. She was not Christian and, therefore, she objected and the dog’s tail wagged all of us.
I just went to the artist’s web site and was presented with this message:
Sorry, the site you requested
has been disabled.
This is eerie. Is it possible that our starving and rejected artist has had more than just his library card canceled?
Would I kid u?
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Just another bit of foolishness. When I was in Dublin earlier this year, I went to their Art Museum. There was a room with the caption Premier Works. Adjacent to it was another room entitled: “Irish Artists.” Three of the walls had very sparse works of art. The fourth wall had four paintings by Turner. On this wall there was the defensive explanation that the Museum knew Turner was an Englishman, but they did not have any other works by famous Irish Painters.
Enjoying your bogs.
Hard to believe but sadly this is probably true. It's getting worse fast!
It is unbelievable that our country has gotten to the point where a complaint about nothing can get such results. Could it have worked with the site as well?
You continue to crack me up.
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